Quotes About Management

You're kind of taught that the role of a business person is the decision making.

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

We were the leaders of a company at the age of 15 with lawyers, tax advisers and managers around us, all on our payroll. A huge chunk of responsibility rested on our shoulders, which at the same time was a good thing since we hate superiors.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.

I'm not proud of this at all, but I'm someone who has relied on business managers and accountants and career managers to run the whole bureaucratic side of my life for the last 16 years, so anything, from filing tax returns to paying credit card statements, is something that I feel rather fortunate to have been out of the loop on.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent.

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.

Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed.

If taxpayers' money goes into paying salaries and bearing expenses of Air India and other entities that require funding every year, then the government needs to evaluate if it can run them successfully or let someone else run it.

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

Direction and all is not my cup of tea. It's not an easy job.